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Baseline Guidelines.pdf Baseline Guidelines
Based on a CARE Malawi experience, this is an eight-step process for setting up and conducting a baseline and evaluation design.
Caldwell2001459 KB
Benefits-Harms Facilitator's Handouts.pdf Benefits-Harms Facilitator's Handouts
Handouts to accompany the Benefits-Harms Facilitator's Manual
O'Brien2001170 KB
Benefits-Harms Facilitator's Manual.pdf Benefits-Harms Facilitator's Manual
Benefits-Harms Analysis is to assist CARE and other relief and development organizations to better understand and take responsibility for the overall impact of projects, and to minimize unintended harms.
O'Brien2001608 KB
Benefits-Harms Handbook.pdf Benefits-Harms Handbook
This handbook offers programmers a framework for rights and impacts and a set of analytical tools that will ensure staff and partners take responsibility for the human rights impact of their work.
O'Brien2001980 KB
Benefits-Harms Workbook.pdf Benefits-Harms Workbook
This workbook accompanies the Benefits-Harms Handbook.
O'Brien20012005 KB
Checklist for Quality of Monitoring Information.pdf Checklist for Quality of Monitoring Information
Two checklists on (1) principles and good practices related to quality of monitoring information; and (2) checklist for systematization in monitoring system.  Identifies potential weaknesses, suggest possible causes, and proposes how to address.
Picard200290 KB
DME - CARE's Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines (English).pdf DME - CARE's Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines (English)
Initially developed for CARE Uganda, these guidelines have had wide circulation in CARE.  This very practical manual is aimed at improving M&E in CARE by provideing a useful technical resource for planning project M&E systems.
Barton1997502 KB
DME - CARE's Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines (French).pdf DME - CARE's Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines (French)
French translation of the CARE M&E Guidelines.
Barton1997476 KB
DME - CARE's Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines (Spanish).pdf DME - CARE's Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines (Spanish)
Spanish translation of the CARE M&E Guidelines.
Barton1997462 KB
DME - CARE's Project Design Handbook.pdf DME - CARE's Project Design Handbook
This very practical handbook is a guide to translating CARE's vision, principles and values into action through logical design of projects and programs.
Caldwell20021369 KB
DME - Essentials of Project Design.pdf DME - Essentials of Project Design
A 45-page version of Rich Caldwell's classic Project Design Manual. The design section includes causal analysis and synthesis as well as other aspects of proposal preparation and design.
Caldwell (condensed by Barton)2002520 KB
DME - Tips for Collecting, Reviewing and Analyzing Secondary Data.pdf DME - Tips for Collecting, Reviewing and Analyzing Secondary Data
A 9-page set of tips for data collection, review and analysis of secondary data sources for general research purposes.
McCaston2005129 KB
DME Course Materials.pdf DME Course Materials
This is a set of 8 sessions on DME conducted for CARE Kosovo beginning with the big picture to planning.
Picard20012425 KB
DME Workshop Facilitator's Manual.pdf DME Workshop Facilitator's Manual
This is the manual for facilators of DME workshops conducted for CARE staff in in Asia in 1997. It covers plans and notes for the 8 sessions with overheads for each of the 8 sessions.
Caldwell, Sprechmann, Rugh1997359 KB
DME Workshop Handouts.pdf DME Workshop Handouts
This set of handouts associated with workshops for CARE Country Office staff in the Asia region is extensive and includes materials on all phases of project cycle.
Caldwell, Sprechmann, Rugh1997476 KB
Documenting Methods and Findings.pdf Documenting Methods and Findings
A 3-page brief on importance of documenting research methods and findings for general research purposes.
McCaston200561 KB
Guia Para el Diseno (Spanish).pdf Guia Para el Diseno (Spanish)
Spanish translation of CARE Project Design Handbook by Rich Caldwell.
Caldwel, Alvarenga, Segovia, Fajardo, de Navas200411554 KB
HLS - Operationalizing HLS - A Holistic Approach.pdf HLS - Operationalizing HLS - A Holistic Approach
Describes how HLS has been operationalized in CARE.  Drawing on real cases, the paper shows how livelihood concepts and tools have been taken into account in strategic planning, diagnosis, design, implementation, monitoring, reformulation and evaluation.
Frankenberger, Drinkwater, Maxwell2000409 KB
HLS Assessment - A Toolkit for Practitioners.pdf HLS Assessment - A Toolkit for Practitioners
A 92-page guide to conducting Household Livelihood Security assessments that incorporate a rights-based approach.
TANGO International20022792 KB
Humanitarian Response - Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement.pdf Humanitarian Response - Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement
This guide outlines the basic principles of impact measurement and accountability in relation to humanitarian response and suggests some tried and tested easy-to-implement tools for putting these principles into practice from the beginning of a project.
Emergency Capacity Building Project2007614 KB
ME Plan Template.doc ME Plan Template
This handout is a draft template for a project M&E plan.  It shows some standard pieces to be included in such a plan, gives options for additional detail, and presents the reader/user with guiding questions to facilitate the process.
Tom Barton1999148 KB
ME Plan Template.pdf ME Plan Template
This handout is a draft template for a project M&E plan.  It shows some standard pieces to be included in such a plan, gives options for additional detail, and presents the reader/user with guiding questions to facilitate the process.
Tom Barton1999110 KB
Operationalizing HLS - A Holistic Approach for Addressing Poverty and Vulnerability.pdf Operationalizing HLS - A Holistic Approach for Addressing Poverty and Vulnerability
Short summary version of the paper describing the Household Livelihood Security framework.
Frankenberger, Drinkwater & Maxwell2000491 KB
Principles into Practice (Spanish).PDF Principles into Practice (Spanish)
CIUK commissioned Mary Picard to collect and synthesis of case studies illustrating how CARE projects in many countries are applying RBA.
Picard, CARE UK2005699 KB
Principles into Practice.pdf Principles into Practice
CIUK commissioned Mary Picard to collect and synthesis of case studies illustrating how CARE projects in many countries are applying RBA.
Picard & CIUK20053106 KB
Project Management Information Systems Guidelines.pdf Project Management Information Systems Guidelines
Intended for project managers to gain a common understanding of the process for managing a DME information system. This entails processes for defining, locating, collecting, storing, analyzing, sharing and using information.
Siles20041742 KB
Proposed New Menu of Impact Indicators.pdf Proposed New Menu of Impact Indicators
Provides a non-exhaustive list of indicators that may be used to measure the impact of programs and projects, especially those which seek to measure the cumulative impact of a set of multi-sectoral interventions with an HLS & MDG orientation.
Rugh2002361 KB
Visión, Misión, Princpios Programáticos Estándares (Spanish).pdf Visión, Misión, Princpios Programáticos Estándares (Spanish)
A Spanish translation by CARE El Salvador of the CARE International principles, standards, and various instruments in one package.
Alvarenga200411076 KB